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##Technical background## FST is a web service for publishing legal documents and associated metadata. It was developed for Swedish Goverment agencies who want to publish important legal documents as Open Data.

FST is an easy and reusable way to publish Swedish legal documents and up-to-date, high-quality information about them. It was designed to complement existing IT solutions: agency users simply upload existing documents and enter metadata via a simple web interface. This information is automatically transformed to a well-defined structured format and published as a standard newsfeed.

The technical specifications behind FST can be found here: http://dev.lagrummet.se/dokumentation/#specifikationer (text in Swedish). In particular, the rich information model (begreppsmodellen för svenska rättsinformationspublikationer), use of newsfeeds for publishing and principles of persistent URI creation are the technical foundation of FST.

Note! Parts of the non-technical project documentation of Rättsinformationsprojektet may be outdated.

##FST development##

FST is implemented using the web framework Django, a proven Open Source framework with a strong community and excellent documentation.

Working through this tutorial will help you understand how the code works. In particular, pay attention to the parts about the Django admin interface.

Install FST on development machine

Install FST on server

User guide (in Swedish)

Anyone with an active interest in FST can fork this project. Here is a Github guide describing how you can create a copy of a project and keep collaborating with the original. We have a small page outlining Development practises.

##Deployment and customization##

Note! The current release of FST does not have detailed documentation for production use.

Here are some pages that may be useful.

Atom newsfeed

Configuration files

Database administration

Info about domain names and HTTPS